A familiar workforce strategy is now being offered to high-school students while addressing a need in the labor market.

Internships are not just for college students anymore. In Noblesville, high-school Principal Jeff Bryant said one-third of last year’s senior class earned school credit with internships during the school day.

I’ve yet to meet Charles Schnell in person but I regularly get letters from the man who has double personas, “Cowboy Tex” and “Super Commodore.” A recent note shared news of the Jasper man and retired Perry Central teacher marking 70 years in music.

Schnell, who recently marked his 84th birthday, said he is producing his first music compact disc with 11 of the 94 songs he has composed since 2002.

It’s unlikely Marion “Al” Chapman will stand trial on charges of theft or official misconduct. As the News reported last month, Chapman signed a plea agreement in which he pleaded guilty to two counts of misconduct in return for theft charges being dismissed.

If Judge Lucy G. Coffinet accepts the agreement when Chapman is due to be sentenced this month, the former superintendent of Cannelton City Schools will receive a suspended prison sentence and probation. In other words, he won’t serve any additional jail time.

I don’t normally respond to letters in the Perry County News, but two recent issues in our community need to be addressed.

The first is in regard to a sign I placed for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There has been some confusion and misunderstanding surrounding this sign. I created the sign to show support for women’s issues, including breast cancer awareness.

The Avenue of Flags is a project that Perry County has more than welcomed and supported over the past eight years.

The names of fallen heroes who are our love ones are displayed three times a year for all to see and to share their remembrance. The freedom of our nation is a price paid for by their deaths as they were killed in action defending the gates of freedom.

Last week a sign with the words “Stop the War on Women. Vote Democrat” was placed at the corner of 12th Street and Indiana 37 in Tell City. It seems local Democratic Party leaders are once again trying to make an issue of something that is a non-issue on the local level.

The first time they put up a sign it implied that their friends and neighbors who happen to be Republicans did not support our troops. This is an inference that was ridiculous and completely untrue.